Tadej Pogacar experienced a real frightening second at the eleventh stage of the Tour de France. The defending champion fell around four kilometers before the finish. According to the circumstances, the Slovenian cycling superstar is okay according to the circumstances.
“I’m okay, a bit struck, but we have experienced worse days,” said Tadej Pogacar after the eleventh stage at the Tour de France.
“It was a hectic day from start to finish, and in the end I had a fall, thanks to the peloton that actually waited,” the cycling superstar described the terror shortly before the finish in Toulouse.
In fact, his competition was fair and waited for the 26-year-old. Pogacar did not lose time in the overall classification of the Tour de France.
Pogacar had previously got into the rear wheel of a front man and fell. The top favorite could quickly go back to the race.
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“He hadn’t seen me and cut me off,” Pogacar said from his point of view: “I was afraid when I saw the sidewalk that I was falling straight on the sidewalk. Fortunately, my skin is hard and stopped me in front of the sidewalk.”
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He “didn’t really notice it, but we definitely took the pace out of it. This is also part of cycling,” the German cycling officer Florian Lipowitz reacted to the “ARD”.
The Tour de France will go into its hot phase in the coming days. Ben Healy from Ireland goes in the yellow jersey in the Pyrenees showdown. Pogacar (+29 seconds), Remco Evenepoel (+1: 29m) and Jonas Vingegaard (+1: 46m) lurk behind it and want to push past the surprise man on Thursday.